#cricket

My father used to say, 'If you want to know the artist, look at the art'. He was usually talking about Stanley Matthews or Don Bradman when he said it. ↗

— David Peace

#cricket #soccer #art

Part of the art of bowling spin is to make the batsman think something special is happening when it isn't. ↗

— Shane Warne

#cricket #deception #spin-bowling #sport #art

If you start a chocolate company, you can't compete with Cadbury in the first ten years because they are a big company. ↗

— Tamim Iqbal

#business #cadbury #chocolate #competition #cricket

I know. And I couldn't wait any longer, I have to tell you - " The panic rises, and I grip the French band tighter. "Cricket, please -" But his words pour forth in a torrent. "I can't stop thinking about you, and I'm not the guy I used to be, I've changed -" "Cricket -" I look back up, feeling faint. His blue eyes are bright. Sincere. Desperate. "Go out with me tonight. Tomorrow night, every ni -" The words cut off in his throat as he sees something behind me. Cigarettes and spearmint. I want to die. "This is Max. My boyfriend. Max, this is Cricket Bell. ↗

— Stephanie Perkins

#change

I thought back to all the times I’d slept with a girl and not thought twice about it and my gut ached. If a girl doesn’t safeguard herself, who will? I’d always had the mentality that men will change when women change but I never thought about how safeguarding the girls around me was just as much my responsibility as it was theirs. ↗

— Fisher Amelie

#cricket #greed #spencer #change

Far from marking the end of nationalism, the IPL is the ultimate triumph of that principle: a global tournament in which the same nation always wins. ↗

— Gideon Haigh

#india #indian-premier-league #nationalism #india

I hate losing and cricket being my first love, once I enter the ground it's a different zone altogether and that hunger for winning is always there. ↗

— Sachin Tendulkar

#always #being #cricket #different #enter

But eventually it is a game of cricket. ↗

— Sachin Tendulkar

#eventually #game

We are such sticklers for tradition in insisting on an amateur captain, regardless of the question of whether he can pull his weight as a player. The time is coming when we will have to change our views [...] when there will be no amateurs of sufficient ability to put into an England side. ↗

— John Berry Hobbs

#change

I do love cricket - it's so very English. ↗

— Sarah Bernhardt

#english #i #i do #love #very